School contracts

[Holly247]

I haven't worked in school before.I have been offered a job working in a secondary school (in a support staff role). I'm waiting to get the formal offer letter before handing in my resignation, and I need to give two months notice where I work now. Is it likely to be a problem if I miss the beginning of the summer term, or can I start part-way through a term?

I started a support role in a school partway through the term and it wasn’t a problem.

I would just check you understand the pro rataing of holidays etc before you hand in your notice as if you have all school holidays off only 6 weeks of them are paid usually so you end up with quite a lot of unpaid time off factored into your monthly salary.

Thanks for the advice, I will double check that, as it's already a significant drop in salary from my current job!

So as an example..

Say your full time equivalent salary was 2000k net per month.

With a term time contract you’d be in school 39 weeks per year (might be more with inset days but using that as an example).

You’d have 6 weeks paid holiday. The remaining 7 weeks the school is close you are unpaid for.

So you actually only work the equivalent of 87 per cent of a full time role.

So your monthly salary is 87 per cent of the full time equivalent.

So your monthly net salary would actually be 1740, not 2000.

So you lose 260 pounds every month for holidays you’re forced to take when the school is closed.

On the ad it said the salary (actual) so I am assuming that this is after it has been pro rata'd? I will definitely check though because if it's any lower than that it's not worth my while!